Codrin Spiridon
635 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
Do what you love, and try to make an honest buck out of it.
A University of Portsmouth graduate, Codrin seized the opportunity to jump into the automotive world after having been a gaming/tech TV journalist for quite some time.
He feels there's something incredibly special about having the opportunity to write about things you're passionate about, and at the end of the day... get to pay the bills too.
Hypercars Have Arrived in The Crew Motorfest's Latest Update
20 Jan 2024, 21:28 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Ivory Tower, the Ubisoft 1st party developer behind The Crew series, never disappoints when it comes to new weekly content. This time, it's no different, with a bunch of cool new rides introduced in the latest update. If you're a fan of h...
GTA 6 Trailer Breaks New Record While GTA Online Is Slowly Walking Away From Old Consoles
20 Jan 2024, 18:37 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / The Grand Theft Auto VI trailer broke YouTube records after 24 hours, and recently, it destroyed another one. At the time of writing, it's sitting at 169,590,585 views, surpassing the previous No. 2 video game trailer spot held by Minecraft wi...
An American Icon Races a Bavarian Favorite, Someone Gets Stung Hard
19 Jan 2024, 18:21 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / What happens when you take one runway and race a 6.2-liter 2020 Chevy Corvette Stingray against the 3.0-liter 2023 BMW M2? Well, you get a show well worth watching. The kicker is that while it's not entirely fair to race a 6.2-liter engine aga...
This Ferrari F40 Went From 0 to $1 Mil in Less Than 2 Seconds and Then Sold for $3.1 Mil.
14 Jan 2024, 19:18 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / This legendary 1992 Ferrari F40 was just sold at an auction for no less than $3.1 million. The bid started off at a mere $150,000, and in two seconds on the clock, it jumped to $1 million. Seven seconds later, it got to a well-rounded $2 million bi...
The Crew Motorfest Just Got One of the Most Exciting Cars and Then Some
14 Jan 2024, 14:30 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / The Crew Motorfest will not stop for one second in 2024. The Year One Pass is in full effect, which at the beginning of January dropped the amazing 1,004-horsepower 1988 Chevy Camaro ZZ632/1000 with that mouth-watering exposed 632-ci or 10.3-liter ...
Forza Motorsport Execs Publicly Agree Their Game Has Severe Issues
13 Jan 2024, 22:24 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Turn 10 Studios, the developers behind the controversial Forza Motorsport, released four major updates since the October 2023 launch. But setting aside much-appreciated new content, there are still significant technical issues to address. According...
Daytona Is Coming to Forza Motorsport With Style, Grace, and Power!
13 Jan 2024, 18:27 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Attention all Forza Motorsport and NASCAR enthusiasts! Next week, get ready for one of the most exciting events you can get in a track-focused racing game. The best part, is that aside from the NASCAR content, there are a ton of other legendary veh...
You Can Drive the AFEELA Concept From CES 2024 This Year in Gran Turismo 7
12 Jan 2024, 18:30 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Sony and Honda's love child, the AFEELA EV concept, hit the stage at CES 2024, and it did so in style. PlayStation 5 style, to be more precise, because the team "drove" the car on stage using nothing but a PlayStation Dualsense contr...
Can the New Toyota GR Yaris Beat the Old Version in a Drag Race?
12 Jan 2024, 14:16 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Today, we're excited about another generational battle between the "old" Toyota GR Yaris and the new one. We'll see a bitter rivalry between two manual versions, but to add some extra spice, the stakes get higher with an automat...
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game Preview (PC): Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads
10 Jan 2024, 16:27 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / As a newbie to this genre, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game is the adventure driving game I didn't know I always needed in my life. Now that I've spent enough time with a preview build, all I have left to do is wait for the whole thing to re...
Tuned BMW Races Audi S5: Someone Gets Put to Shame
7 Jan 2024, 14:44 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / When will the bitter rivalry between BMW and Audi end? Because then we'll need other "sworn enemy" brands to fight it off in 1/4-mile drag races. Especially when they have souped-up models that come close to 500 horsepower. In th...
Florida Joker, Two Lawyers, a Hacker, and Rockstar Games Walk Into a Bar...
7 Jan 2024, 11:23 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / If Grand Theft Auto was known before for its digital satirization of society, it looks that with GTA 6, the irony is permeating reality itself and merging the two existential fabrics together in one funny episode that could be featured in South Par...
What the Forza Horizon 5 Community Asked for, Got in Spades
6 Jan 2024, 20:40 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Forza Motorsport might have scored an 84 on Metacritic and got two GOTY awards for "Innovation in Accessibility" and "Best Sports/Racing Game," but that wasn't enough to please fans. On Steam, Motorsport has a "Mostly ...
This Ford GT Generational Drag Race Is Like Automotive Poetry, but ill Fortune Strikes
6 Jan 2024, 10:41 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Watching three different generations of the revered Ford GT compete against each other in a 1/4-mile drag race is like witnessing automotive poetry in motion. It's too bad someone runs into problems near the end. Mat Watson from "carwo...
The Crew Motorfest Is Going Strong in January With Hoonigan Events
5 Jan 2024, 21:24 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / While Forza Horizon 5 finally has competition within its open-world arcade racing genre, it's not enough for The Crew Motorfest to simply show up to the party while the rest handles itself. At the end of the day, it's a Live Service game,...
Are Mechs Finally Coming to Starfield?
5 Jan 2024, 19:46 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / While Bethesda with Todd Howard at the helm didn't make Starfield the revolutionary RPG experience they've been promising for years, there are tons of people who adore this game, and that's awesome. Love it or hate it, Starfield will...
What's Next in 2024: 5 New Video Games That Will Shake Things Up
2 Jan 2024, 18:31 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Out of the total 42 racing games released in 2023, only a handful were great or even excellent. While we still don't know the complete roadmap ahead, we have a vague idea of what's to come in 2024. Some of them sound exciting, others not ...
Ford Mustang GT Races a Chevrolet Camaro SS and Someone Gets Put to Shame Hard
2 Jan 2024, 13:21 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / What better way to kick the new year into gear than by racing a 2024 Ford Mustang GT against another American icon, the Camaro SS? Ironically, this 1/4-mile drag race is taking place in Canada, but it's the cars that count, not the location. A...
The Crew Motorfest's New Year's Resolution Starts With a 1,004-HP 632-CI Big-Block V8
2 Jan 2024, 11:16 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / The Crew Motorfest developer, Ivory Tower, is entering 2024 with roars and pops coming from a 1988 Chevy Camaro ZZ632/1000 and a 2021 Mercedes-AMG SL 63 4MATIC+. Not too shabby, but you need the Year 1 Pass if you want to get behind the wheel of th...
Gran Turismo 7 vs. Forza Motorsport, Which One Looks Best?
1 Jan 2024, 18:21 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / It's been a minute since Gran Turismo 7 launched on PS4 and PS5 in March 2022, especially when we compare it to Microsoft's Forza Motorsport released in October 2023. However, even though, in theory, they are relatively far apart and on e...